Questions by- Shubham Mishra & Harsh Vikram. The Final round of the MELA Quiz of the Prometheans Club for the term July 2018 organised on 12/10/2018

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3. Mains

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5. RULES
 There will be 3 rounds.
 Each round shall have 6 questions.
 +20 for each DIRECT correct answer.
 +10 for pass.
 +20/-20 on pounce
 Max. no. of pounce per team is 6.

7. Coca ColaAnswer-

8. Round One (Clockwise)

9. (1) Section 156 of the Railways Act, 1989 laid down the provision of
punishment for a specific act of passenger misconduct to discourage
this activity. However, in late 90s, it again became common, probably
because of a song voiced by Sukhwinder Singer & Sapna Awasthi on the
music of A.R. Rahman.
Which song?

10. Chhaiya Chhaiya song from the film Bombay

11. 2) Identify the institution/organisation.

12. Lalit Kala Akademi

13. (3) These are some of the famous paintings by a master painter,
patronised by a ruler who himself was a naturalist painter & had his
own private workshop. However, no major work of the ruler survives.
Name the ruler.

14. Jahangir

15. (4) If one of the composers of this iconic tune was Pt. Ravi Shankar,
name the other?

16. Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan

17. (5) Winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Dadasaheb
Phalke Award, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan & posthumously
Padma Vibhushan, who is this famous artist?

18. Bhupen Hazarika

19. (6) Padma Bhushan awardee, declared as one of the ‘Nine
Masters’ to be treated as a National Treasure Artist by ASI,
having created a body of work counting to about 32,000, this
artist’s work was influenced by ‘Kalighat Pat’, such as this ‘Cats
& the Lobster’.
Who is being talked about?

20. Jamini Roy

21. Audience Question
Which movie?

22. The Lion King

23. Round 2
Anti-clockwise

24. (1) Id the show/singer

25. Hannah Montana/
Miley Cyrus

26. (2) It’s a week long festival and a unique phenomena when
Hindus and Muslims together offer the floral chaadar and
pankha at the Dargah of Khwaja Bakhtiar 'Kaaki’ & at the
ancient temple of Devi Yogmaya, in Mehrauli. The Festival is
being being celebrated since the Mughal period (1812).
Which festival?

27. Phool Walon Ki Sair
or
Sair-e-Gul Faroshan

28. (3) The first Indian movie star to be featured on the
cover of the Time magazine in 1976 was 27, when the
cover titled ‘Asia’s Frenetic Film Scene’ came out and
was already at the peak of career, & is still considered to
be the one of Hindi cinema's ultimate sex symbols.
Identify the star.

29. Parveen Babi

30. (4) This poem was composed into a song & first
sung (in political context) by Rabindra Nath Tagore,
translated into English by Shri Aurobindo. The tune
for the poem was given by Jadunath Bhattacharya.
Identify this poem.

31. Vande Mataram

32. (5) Identify the poet of the poem.

33. Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’-
Samar Shesh Hai

34. (6) Which ‘classic’?

35. Sholay

36. (Audience Question)

37. Usha Uthup in
Bombay to Goa

38. Round 3 (Clockwise)

39. (Audience Question)
San Geshagua has been one of the big hits in China in
2011, especially with young people, as it struck a natural
chord with them. The film is an Indian movie of year
2009 & is one of the biggest hits of all time.

40. 3 Idiots

41. (1) Creator of new words as churgle (gurgle with
laughter), bish (ruin), this author’s works, over the
years have been adapted into films- which have big
names associated with them- Johnny Depp, Helena
Bonham Carter, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg etc.
Name this author of works like Charlie & the
Chocolate Factory, Matilda & Gremlins.

42. Roald Dahl

43. (2) Robert Kanigel an American biographer and science writer, wrote a
book (1991) on which is based the film (2015) of same name, starring
Jeremy Irons in supporting role. The story is of a poor but brilliant man
who grew up in Madras & went to Cambridge University during World
War I & became a pioneer in his field.
Name the film.

44. The Man Who Knew Infinity

45. (3) A selection of journalism of this Latin American Literature
Nobel laureate is coming out recently in the form of book- El
Escandalo del Siglo (The Scandal of the Century), who helped
establish an International Film School in Cuba. His visa ban was
revoked by Bill Clinton who narrated to him one of the long
passages from his book.
Name the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, popularly
known as Gabito.

46. Gabriel García Márquez

47. (4) Her name is a pun of the words cruel and devil, an allusion
which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed "Hell
Hall“. The character became a pop-culture type epitomizing a person
who is very, very mean.
Guess the movie in which she is the antagonist.

48. 101 Dalmations

49. (5) Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born shortly after
an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that
he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after
the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest
humorist this (America) country has
produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father
of American literature”. Who is this?

50. Mark Twain

51. (6) Id the actress.

52. Meryl Streep

53. Thank you